The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #08-24, Air Date: 06/02/08
NOTE: The Early Music Foundation presented over 60 events in the fall of 2007. This week and next, we celebrate some of the performances given at this festival. This week and next, we celebrate some of the performances given at this festival.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #11-20, Air Date: 05/09/11
The French harpsichord soloist Béatrice Martin performs some familiar and rare French Baroque repertoire by Couperin, Forqueray, Royer and Rameau.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #11-10, Air Date: 02/28/11
Happily, the ensemble Jacques Moderne reminds us of the great French music at the end of the 16th century with a mass by Claude le Jeune and Du Caurroy's 1590 Requiem.
We continue our long and fruitful association with our partners at Radio Netherlands in presenting a series of concerts from the 2010 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht. We direct listeners to their web site, which will provide more in-depth information about the music and performers we hear as well as more information about the festival:
www.rnwclassical.com
Read more and hear this show…Program: #11-04, Air Date: 01/17/11
Philippe Pierlot and his superb Ricercar Consort present Couperin's tributes to both Corelli and Lully.
continue our long and fruitful association with our partners at Radio Netherlands in presenting a series of concerts from the 2010 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht. We direct listeners to their web site, which will provide more in-depth information about the music and performers we hear as well as more information about the festival:
www.rnwclassical.com
The primary theme for 2010 was a celebration of the French Baroque in collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
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